[Senate  Bill,  No.   121.] 

SENATE,  November  29,  1864. — Read  first  and  second  times  and 
ordered  to  be  placed  upon  the  cjilendar  and  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Semmes,  from  the  Committee  on  Finance.] 


A.  BILL 

Declaring  the  mode  of  ascertaining  the  value  of  the  tithe  deliverable 
to  the  Government  under  existing  laws. 

1  The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enacts  That 

2  in  case  of  disagreement  between  the  assessor  and  tax  payer  as 

3  to  the  value  of  the  tithe  deliverable  to  the  Government  under 

4  existing  laws,  said  value  is  to  be  assessed  and  ascertained  by  dis- 

5  interested  freeholders  of  the  vicinage  in  the  same  manner  as  ie 

6  estimated  the  amount  of  the  crops  or  articles  subject  to  the  tax 

7  in  kind  and  said  estimate  of  value  thus  ascertained  is  coucluaive 

8  and  final. 


